Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such wonderful Newman albums as Good Old Boys and Land of Dreams, but this time it comes bundled as part of a larger dream. A stage version has just opened at California's La Jolla Playhouse for a six-week engagement, and will be followed--if the good Lord is rather less capricious than Newman portrays him in Faust--by a Broadway run, perhaps even as early as the late fall. The theatrical form seems to suit him perfectly, both by training (he has released 17 film sound-track albums) and by birth (his uncles Alfred and Lionel were...
...persuade Miss Kenton, a former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, to come back and work for the house's new American owner. But as Stevens remembers the good old days, the 1930s, his dry reserve and matter-of-fact tone are threatened by a troubling perception: perhaps his devotion to Lord Darlington, later disgraced for having tried to appease the Nazis, was misplaced. Near the end, when he briefly weeps for his wasted life, the pathos is shattering...
...Lord help us as far as the squash courts go," Zewinski says. "We haven't found anything for those things...
...dismemberment displace reasoned dialogue. As you dial through the current flood of talk shows, you will hear endless whining and not much constructive advice for our country. Any public figure espousing a controversial idea can expect to have not just the idea attacked, but his or her integrity. And Lord help anyone who strays from accepted ideas of political correctness. The slightest suggestion of offense toward any group, however innocently made, and even when made merely to illustrate a historical point, will be met with cries that the offender be fired or forced to undergo sensitivity training, or threats...
...Johns Hopkins. As a fellow at Oxford, she pioneered research into the link between creativity and manic depression. In concerts, television programs and a lay book, Touched with Fire (1993), she has popularized that research, identifying as manic depressive such luminaries as Vincent van Gogh, Robert Schumann and Lord Byron...